$Moonbeam13 has offered information that the “Groups” accounts that has we have been long waiting for is still a long, long way off and she has proposed a new way of doing things explained here [link] and here [link] in the meantime. The Clubs/Groups issue has been debated in DA for a long time amongst the administration and members. I am actually surprised there has not been a formal policy concerning them years ago.

Changes

The first change you will see is that the usual form of “Gallery” has been removed. From now on, we will no longer be submitting deviations to our gallery. Instead, we will be moving everything to our collections filed by month and year. The submitted photos will be featured as a thumbnail in that weeks journal(s) and a screen shot will be taken of that journal and added to the gallery with a link back to it in case you missed anything. This is just an administrative change of format more than anything else.

Because there is less work involved, you may now submit up to 4 submissions per week. You don’t have to do anything special, you still submit your work by sending us a note called "submission" with a thumbnail of your work. We take it from there.


Why are we doing this?

Have you ever faved a club deviation, and gotten a note from any club that says "You have favorite a club submission, remove your favorite please" ? Well, that's why. Faving at a club is not fair to the artist and that generates lots of tedious work for us. Since the inception of the Collections feature to DA, the problem has gotten out of control as is so simple for people to collect something without even seeing our warning messages not to fav a club submission. In my other clubs I have gotten a lot of “I’m too busy to read your comments not to fav” and “It’s too much trouble of going to the original” and other more selfish and rude responses.

By using collections and featuring your work in our journal instead of our gallery, it means that when deviants fav your work, you will actually get the full credit for it, immediately. It also means less work for us tracking down the wrongful favs in our club and more time for submissions.

And as an added bonus, because we will not be adding to the vast amount of duplicate deviations, we will be helping out DA by not putting more of a strain on their recourses.

BUT HOW ARE PEOPLE GOING TO NOTICE YOUR WORK ?

All members should be reading the journals. In the journals you will be able to fav the work of the original artist right away by moving it to your favorites or your own collections in just one easy move! So simple, so easy for everybody !
Besides members seeing your work in the journals, it now will be much more easy for us to make news articles featuring those works. Also, $Moonbeam13 has promised to help the clubs out with getting more exposure for its members if we change our format.


Feel free to ask us your questions if you have any or to make suggestions.